Ugandan Vitiligo Patients Decry Discrimination

Posted by: Kyeyune Andrew Jonathan in Health March 5, 2022

Cases of Vitiligo are on an increase in Uganda. With this, the Vitiligo Association of Uganda came out on 3rd March 2022 to sensitize the country.

The sensitization is aimed at reducing discrimination among the affected people.

Vitiligo is a condition where the skin of a person develops white spots resulting into death of some cells within the skin. Many people mistake this to be a punishment from twins (okwochebwa abalongo) which is not true because it is a complication and it can happen to anyone.

Eva Atukunda the project coordinator of Vitiligo Association of Uganda said the disease is caused by dead cells on the melanin part of the skin. This eventually leads to the production of some spots on the skin.

She urges those with this complication to desist from direct Sunshine and be free from stress so as to reduce the effects.

However, according to Atukunda, the victims of the complication are always isolated and discrimination by their fellows. She says this is wrong because the disease is not transmitted from one person to another.

Pandemic diseases that killed many people

Meanwhile, there have been many pandemics in the past. Even in my own life there have been at least 5 major ones, including some very similar to Covid-19. HIV/AIDS was horrific, and there were silly reports in some newspapers that it would wipe out some African countries like Botswana and Uganda!

The alarmists were there then, as now. HIV/AIDS killed over 40m people in less than 20 years. Then we had SARS and Bird Flu. There was even Mad Cow disease, and Swine Flu, and of course, Ebola. We also had massive disease outbreaks like Cholera on a scale you cannot even imagine!

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